quarta-feira, julho 20, 2005

E tu? Gritavas ou choravas?

"The yells of 'Viva Cristo Rey!' would make the walls of that prison fortress tremble," recalls former political prisoner Armando Valladares, who heard them nightly - then the blast from the firing squad. That was the cry from hundreds of Cuban Catholic youths who were crumpling in front of Che's firing squads in the early years of the Revolution. A college youth group named Catholic Action was among the first and most active in opposing the communization of Cuba. The Spanish Civil War was only 22 years distant at the time. Most Cubans had relatives in Spain and many were Spanish immigrants themselves at the time. Memories of that bloodbath and the massacres of priests and nuns were vivid. So Catholic groups sprang to action, and died by the hundreds. Finally Che demanded that the martyrs' mouths be taped shut. Their defiant yells were badly spooking the firing squads.
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"Don't shoot," Che whimpered when the wheels of justice finally turned and they cornered him in Bolivia. "I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!" His own victims' bravery was completely lost on Che.

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